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package org.infinispan.container.versioning;
/**
* A version is used to compare entries against one another. Versions do not guarantee contiguity, but do guarantee
* to be comparable. However this comparability is not the same as the JDK's {@link Comparable} interface. It is
* richer in that {@link Comparable} doesn't differentiate between instances that are the same versus instances that
* are equal-but-different.
*
* @author Manik Surtani
* @since 5.1
*/
public interface EntryVersion {
/**
* Compares the given version against the current instance.
* @param other the other version to compare against
* @return a InequalVersionComparisonResult instance
*/
InequalVersionComparisonResult compareTo(EntryVersion other);
}